Every day, the "news" lies to you about whether Trump took "classified" documents from the White House.
How do they lie? We don't have to count the ways; in this case, they lie by omission. They do NOT tell you about Dept. of Navy v. Egan.
Short and sweet: the President has plenary authority (total, complete, unlimited, no "procedure required") to de-classify any document, AND to determine which items are Government property and which are the property of the President.
Mike Davis clerked for Gorsuch, and comments:
...“The president, after all, is the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, according to Article II of the Constitution,” the high court’s 5–3 majority opinion reads. “His authority to classify and control access to information bearing on national security … flows primarily from this constitutional investment of power in the president, and exists quite apart from any explicit congressional grant.”
“That means that he [President Trump] has inherent constitutional authority under the Commander-in-Chief Clause in the Constitution, and neither Congress nor bureaucrats can take that authority away from him through statute or regulations,” Davis explained....
They're happy to state that 'the documents are marked "classified".'
Maybe so. But when Trump says they are not, they are not.
Period.
Liars lie. It's what they do.
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